PM: New law is minor, outcry is silly * More demos tonight * Israel’s doctors urged not to leave * Starting soon: ToI Community webinar on crisis *Avi Loeb’s alien claims

[Times of Israel]( [The daily edition]( Thursday, July 27, 2023 Live updates [LIVE: PM to American TV: New judicial change ‘minor,’ outcry is ‘silly’; Biden invited me to White House]( By ToI Staff ‘I want to bring the pendulum to the middle, not the other side,’ Netanyahu tells ABC News; amid lack of clarity, says Biden invited him to White House [Anti-judicial overhaul protesters gear up to head back to the streets Thursday night]( By ToI Staff Activists plan to begin march only after end of Tisha B’Av fast day; ‘You don’t negotiate with the dictatorial government. You fight a dictatorial government,’ says protest group [UN human rights chief tells Israel to ‘heed the calls’ of anti-overhaul protesters]( By ToI Staff [Anti-judicial overhaul protesters drive diaspora minister out of Tisha B’Av event]( By ToI Staff [As reasonableness law takes effect, High Court sets September showdown for petitions]( By ToI Staff Court declines to issue injunction freezing law, but will hear arguments against legislation from seven petitioners, as well as demands for Levin to convene judge appointment panel [ToI podcast / Daily Briefing July 27: PM’s heart keeps pace as US expresses disappointment]( By ToI Staff [Key Knesset defense panel to meet on IDF readiness fears as reservist protest mounts]( By ToI Staff Analysis Carrie Keller-Lynn [What the ‘reasonableness’ law does — and doesn’t — mean for judicial overhaul]( Reasonableness is the ‘first step’ in the coalition’s campaign to constrain judicial power, and perhaps its mildest; markets, international allies express discomfort [With Israeli-US ties troubled, China says Xi ‘looking forward’ to Netanyahu visit]( By ToI Staff [Herzog: Those in power are chiefly responsible for mending rift caused by overhaul]( By ToI Staff [Ben Gvir visits Temple Mount on Tisha B’Av, drawing rebuke from US, Jordan, Saudis]( By Michael Horovitz Minister, other lawmakers ascend to flashpoint site without incident; 16 Jewish visitors, 2 Arabs arrested over disturbances; record numbers said to tour site on fast day [Erdogan hosts PA’s Abbas, Hamas head Haniyeh to prepare for détente talks]( By Agencies and ToI Staff [PM’s heart keeps pace as US expresses disappointment]( [listen to the podcast]( Top Ops Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll [How she sits alone: For these I weep]( I shed tears of pain for all that should never have befallen our daughters, Jewish marriage, Jewish leadership, or the Torah itself Noah E Abramowitz [Waiting for the donkey]( Instead of claiming the messiah is coming, I vote we ready a saddle and do the most we can as individuals to keep building Lawrence Witt [A new song at the gates of Auschwitz]( A Torah scroll from Wengrow, Poland survived our darkest history, unlike most of the town’s residents. Its repair and rededication honors their memory Ariel Beery [First we mourn]( After thousands of years of practice, we could not prevent the same passions that felled the Second Temple from undermining our Third [Moody’s ‘wake-up call’: Tel Aviv Stock Exchange head warns of looming financial crisis]( By Sharon Wrobel In direct appeal, TASE CEO Ittai Ben-Zeev urges prime minister and finance minister not to dismiss credit-rating agency’s warnings and seek to regain trust to avert a downgrade [Israeli tech entrepreneurs don ‘Save our democracy’ T-shirts at NYSE opening bell]( By Michael Horovitz [Likud MK says party’s actions should no longer be determined by ‘one person’]( By ToI Staff [Likud MK says he will withdraw controversial bill to split attorney general position]( By Jeremy Sharon Eli Dallal says he’s pulling the legislation ‘out of sincere desire for compromise with opposition,’ though all 10 cosponsors would have to retract their names too [AG slams ‘faulty’ law benefiting Deri ally in Tiberias mayoral race]( By ToI Staff Behind the headlines [/ ToI Community event]( [LIVE tonight — Knesset chaos and societal divisions: This Israeli moment explained]( By ToI Staff On Tisha B’av, ToI’s top political analysts answer your questions during an intense, in-depth discussion. Join the ToI Community to participate [Shas’s welfare minister to court: Same-sex adoption against child’s best interests]( By ToI Staff AG favors legislation that would broaden the interpretation of the current adoption law to includes same-sex couples [Expansion of ‘admissions committees’ law allows more towns to cherry-pick residents]( By Charlie Summers [Doctors, scientists and tech leaders take stock after passage of ‘reasonableness’ law]( By Renee Ghert-Zand American physicians and German research institutes offer moral support as Israeli healthcare workers weigh whether to stay and fight for scientific freedom or relocate [Top Health Ministry official beseeches doctors considering leaving Israel to remain]( By Michael Horovitz [At a Haifa church, Jewish pilgrims test coexistence strained by painful history]( By Canaan Lidor Haredi visitors outside Stella Maris say they want to pray near the presumed burial site of Prophet Elisha; churchgoers say it’s just another attempt to intimidate Christians [Jewish pilgrims clash with Christian worshipers outside iconic Haifa church]( By Canaan Lidor [Judicial overhaul opponents see parallel to Tisha B’Av, saddest day in Hebrew year]( By PHILISSA CRAMER Image reading ‘Shisha B’Av’ circulates online to mark Hebrew date Knesset passed overhaul bill, drawing link to destruction of Temples [Ex-Mossad chief: Netanyahu allies worse than KKK, overhaul is his ‘master plan’]( By ToI Staff [Regev slammed for transport plan that forces those in wealthier cities to pay more]( By ToI Staff [Green groups gear up for fight as oil pipeline looks to pump up Eilat operations]( By Sue Surkes Secretive state company said to be pressuring ministries, Prime Minister’s Office to more than double quota of crude that can be transferred via Red Sea terminal [Palestinian group claims to fire rocket from Jenin area at northern Israel town]( By Emanuel Fabian Footage shows projectile fired from northern West Bank; IDF says remains found near Palestinian town [14-year-old Palestinian killed during Israeli military operation in West Bank]( By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff [Avi Loeb’s claims of finding possible alien technology are polarizing scientists]( By Rich Tenorio Funded by a crypto mogul, the Israel-born Harvard professor says a meteor that exploded off the coast of Papua New Guinea may be the first interstellar object found by humanity [Whistleblower tells Congress US is hiding program that retrieves UFOs]( By NOMAAN MERCHANT [CRM]( More Headlines [RFK Jr. on people to blame for COVID: ‘We know who they were and they weren’t Jewish’]( By Jackie Hajdenberg [Iran says ‘detailed answers’ handed to IAEA over man-made uranium found at 2 sites]( By Jon Gambrell [Hillel branch in Odesa ‘significantly damaged’ in Russian missile strike]( By Andrew Lapin [Judge rejects defense request to exhume Pittsburgh synagogue shooter’s father]( By AP [Man shot dead in Umm al-Fahm amid spiraling crimewave in Arab community]( By Michael Horovitz [Two targeted in suspected antisemitic assaults in France, US]( By Michael Horovitz [Maker of Oakley and Ray-Ban sunglasses buys Israeli hearing tech startup Nuance]( By Sharon Wrobel [Madrid Jewish community signs lease for $40 million museum]( By Canaan Lidor [Obituary / David Leitner, who made eating falafel a symbol of Holocaust resilience, dies at 94]( By Canaan Lidor [Obituary / Richard Barancik, last of ‘Monuments Men’ who recovered Nazi loot, dies at 98]( By Andrew Silow-Carroll [The daily edition]( [facebook]( [twitter]( [instagram]( [View in browser]( [Contact support](mailto:support@timesofisrael.com) [Advertise with us](mailto:advertise@timesofisrael.com) Were you forwarded this email? 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